| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christine Bruce, Brenda Barritt | intro to the episode | ||
| Christine Bruce | For thousands of years, salmon have been a primary source of physical and spiritual sustenance and are deeply intertwined with the cultural fabric of Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. | ||
| Dianne Villesèche and Alaina Pyde | A sharing of ideas for ensuring that school children in Prince Rupert are guaranteed occasional lunch meals that include local salmon, a ubiqitous food source in the north that’s being scooped up by large trawlers and exported overseas. | ||
| Christine Bruce, Brenda Barritt | segue into the second half | ||
| Peter Leblanc | Peter realized that lower income families couldn’t afford to shop at farmers’ markets, so he created a coupons program that made sure they could | ||
| Christine Bruce, Brenda Barritt | a big shout-out to all our bridge builders, who advocate so that everyone can eat local, nutritious food in BC. |
This episode explores initiatives to bridge the gap between fresh food availability and community access.
First we visit Prince Rupert with Dianne Villesèche, Community Food Systems Programme Manager with Ecotrust Canada and Alaina Pyde, Project Developer with TBuck Suzuki Environmental Foundation to highlight efforts in Prince Rupert schools to provide more local, culturally acceptable foods despite barriers in sourcing local seafoods.
Then Peter Leblanc talks to us about the BC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Coupon Program as ‘made in BC solution’ to build bridges between locally grown foods and lower-income households.
Resources & Links
www.bucksuzuki.org/
https://ecotrust.ca/latest/blog/sharing-the-harvest-dianne-and-the-north...
https://bcfarmersmarket.org/coupon-program/
https://gastropod.com/snap-to-it-why-food-stamps-matter-to-all-of-us-and...
- consider where you hold shame and what you celebrate. If your idea of opulence and prestige is exotic fruit at the grocery store, why not forage for local fruit the store doesn’t sell, like black currants, thimbleberries, Saskatoons and soapberries.
- lobby your local MLA for keeping the BCAssn of FM coupons program
- write to Fisheries and Oceans Canada today, because they’re currently considering extreme policy changes that would restrict private salmon fishing. Visit www.fishingrights.ca
- support the ongoing Salmon in Schools fundraiser in Prince Rupert by emailing food@ecotrust.ca
Land acknowledgement
salmon
“Aquarium” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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